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have a snootful en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To be drunk.
“It strikes me as a dish invented by men in a hunt camp,” he added, “men who have a snootful, who say, ‘What would happen if we took this bird and put it in this bird?’”
2002 November 20th, Amanda Hesser, “Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (and Chicken)”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2011:Billy usually didn’t drink much, because the war had ruined his stomach, but he certainly had a snootful now, and he was being unfaithful to his wife Valencia for the first and only time.
1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37:
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